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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stanley dm carpenter”
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  • Southern Gambit

    Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown

    by Stanley D. M. Carpenter ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    In a world rife with conflict and tension, how does a great power prosecute an irregular war at a great distance within the context of a regional struggle, all within a global competitive environment? The question, so pertinent today, was confronted by the British nearly 250 years ago during the American War for Independence. And the answer, as this book makes plain, is: not the way the British, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The War of American Independence, 1763-1783

    Falling Dominoes

    by Stanley D. M. Carpenter, Kevin J. Delamer, James R. McIntyre, Andrew T. Zwilling ...
    Series series Warfare and History
    The War of American Independence, 1763–1783: Falling Dominoes addresses the military, maritime and naval, economic, key personalities, key societal groups, political, imperial rivalry, and diplomatic dynamics and events from the post-Seven Years’ War era in Great Britain’s North American colonies through the end of the War of American Independence.Beginning in 1763 and moving through the war ... Read more

    Was $55.99 USD Now $49.99 USD

  • Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651

    'The Genius of this Age'

    by Stanley D.M. Carpenter ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    Despite the wealth of British Civil Wars studies, little work addresses the nature of military leadership effectiveness in terms of the eventual result -parliamentary victory. It is no longer sufficient to credit religion, economics, localism or constitutional concepts for the outcome without considering the role of effective military leadership. The study of human conflict illustrates a simple, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The American Civil War

    by John Keegan ...
    The greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America’s most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war.In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the American Civil War. Illuminated by Keegan’s knowledge of military history he provides a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The English Civil Wars 1642-1649

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    This is the definitive military history of the Civil Wars which swept the British Isles from 1642 to 1649.The martial aspects of the wars are covered in detail along with a comprehensive overview of the religious and political dimensions which shaped the armies involved in the conflict. This excellent single volume history is the perfect introduction to the military history of this turbulent ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Blood and Daring

    How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation

    by John Boyko ...
    Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war- ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses

    by David Santiuste ...
    This fascinating account of an unsung English monarch and military leader is "a pleasing and well-informed appraisal of the first Yorkist king" (Dr. Michael Jones, author of Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle).Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses in fifteenth-century England, King Edward IV died in his bed, undefeated in battle. Yet he has never been accorded the ... Read more

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  • For Honour's Sake

    The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canada’s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this country’s premier military historians.In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was a war in which British and Indian troops prevailed in almost all of the battles, in which the Americans were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Culloden

    The History and Archaeology of the Last Clan Battle

    by Tony Pollard ...
    A team of historians and archaeologists re-examine what happened at the Battle of Culloden between the Scottish Jacobites and Great Britain.In battle at Culloden Moor on April 16, 1746, the Jacobite cause was dealt a mortal blow. The power of the Highland clans was broken. And the image of sword-wielding Highlanders charging into a hail of lead delivered by the red-coated battalions of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Towton

    The Battle of Palm Sunday Field 1461

    by John Sadler ...
    This medieval military history uses archeological research to shed new light on this significant and bloody battle in the Wars of the Roses.The battle at Towton in Yorkshire on March 29th, 1461, was a major turning point in the Wars of the Roses. It was also the largest, longest fought, and bloodiest day in English medieval history. In terms of the number of troops involved, the ruthlessness of ... Read more

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  • The French and Indian War

    Deciding the Fate of North America

    by Walter R. Borneman ...
    In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would be fought across virgin territories, from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, and it would ultimately decide the fate of the entire North American ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

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  • The Men Who Lost America

    British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire

    by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire's loss of the American Revolution.The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving ... Read more

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